Does Google Consider Bought Traffic As A Spam?

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    Hi friends,
    I want to know about buy traffic. Is this method of getting traffic is a kind of spam? Is so then why?
     
    afoley77, Feb 7, 2013 IP
  2. Amit Kumar Mondal

    Amit Kumar Mondal Well-Known Member

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    Yes, getting artificial traffic is not good for any site. It's increase bounce rate and don't provide any business for any site. People are just checking your links and left your page via some tools or web portal.
     
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  3. afoley77

    afoley77 Active Member

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    if this traffic is relevant to my site, then Google will consider it as a kind of spam?? Kindly explain..
     
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    weblinkindia Member

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    Artificial traffic is not a good sign. It increase the bounce rate of your website and Google can also penalize your website.
     
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    ushahm Greenhorn

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    google will not consider paid link as a spam link but google won't give more importance to paid links and google always loves natural links.it gives more credits to the natural links so paid links is not good.:)
     
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  6. Highway99

    Highway99 Active Member

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    Google has marked some special kind of traffic as spam.like getting traffic from PTC sites and adult sites etc.however there is nothing like paid traffic is marked as spam..You can have paid traffic from facebook or yahoo advertising and google i okay with it and is not going to consider it as spam..overall all the sources of traffic which google thinks are cheap are considered as spam and you can not use that traffic on a website with adsense enabled or your account may be banned..


    hope that helps.
    rakesh
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    No, search engines won`t see bought traffic as spam, but will know it`s unnatural traffic, which is not good for your site.
     
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    alex06295 Well-Known Member

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    Well, buying traffic or links is not good in SEO.

    Your site should receive visitors naturally so you have to promote your site to gain better result.
     
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  9. Zeshan Noor wahgra

    Zeshan Noor wahgra Active Member

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    Google specially added manual team for these kind of stuff.Any manipulated stuff Google will hate it.Google is the market leader and in order to maintain its share rather than increasing it they want to make sure they give there searching users Good and relevant information as much as possible.
     
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  10. Tasu

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    Artificial traffic is not a good sign. It increase the bounce rate of your website and Google can also penalize your website.
     
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  11. Zeshan Noor wahgra

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    Tasu can you elaborate your experience or Google science of penalizing sites with high Bounce rate of like 80+?
    Really adding an important point even Alexa really take cares of Bounce rate.
     
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  12. wissam

    wissam Well-Known Member

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    Well he didn't mention any method of the traffic that he will buy, artificial or not.
    the point is if you are buying a link from a blog or site that is relevant to you, you will gain traffic and the link back power, and its cheaper and better then buying [traffic] it self.
    1st because the link that you got to your self is natural, and only people interested is going to click it, and make sure the blog or site you are buying link from is actually real, original content and not spammy.
    2nd if buying links and selling links is illegal Google wont start the Adsense / Adword business, I know it's different but in anyhow 2 sites linking each other is still the best considering the organic value.

    So here is how to do it, don't buy traffic buy links, exchange links, links are legal and nice :D
     
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  13. Zeshan Noor wahgra

    Zeshan Noor wahgra Active Member

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    Wissam link building is not Illegal but anything that you do more than too much to manipulate rank.Trust me you are going back in rank for sure.
    20-30 link ok fine.Do not mind but 200k contextual backlinks.OO guys what this site is doing.Google manual team go and have some check.OO my God they are surely buying links to manipulate rank.Try to rank is something different from manipulating rank.Keyword stuffing like things.
     
    Zeshan Noor wahgra, Feb 28, 2013 IP